With large pieces of fish farming equipment regularly breaking loose and drifting in Tasmanian waters in rough weather, the salmon industry's expansion into Storm Bay has many in the local boating community worried.

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani cautions US President Donald Trump about pursuing hostile policies against Tehran, saying "America should know … war with Iran is the mother of all wars," state news agency IRNA reports.

Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) has searched a research facility controlled by the country's space agency Roskosmos over the suspected leaking of secrets about new hypersonic weapons to Western spies, the TASS news agency reported.

The New South Wales Government renews part of the coal exploration licence for the controversial Shenhua Watermark project on the Liverpool Plains in the north-west of the state, with a promise not to release any other parts of the area for exploration.

"Crocodile Hunter" Steve Irwin talked about giving up filming to spend more time with his kids in the lead up to his death, widow Terri Irwin says, as she sits for her portrait on Anh's Brush With Fame.

A plan to build an emergency storage facility capable of holding "several thousand tonnes" of dead fish causes a big stink with the local council, with the mayor saying the industry has "lied" about the amount of support its idea has from the community.

A popular recreational creek in northern Brisbane regularly records dangerous levels of faecal bacteria in council testing, but many people using the waterway have told the ABC they know nothing about it.

A lava explosion has blown a hole in a tour boat in Hawaii, injuring at least 13 people. Onlookers from a different boat captured the explosion, which is part of the ongoing eruptions of the Kilauea volcano that started in early May.